After showing you the basic MVVMLight Setup I am using as well as how to combine Xamarin.Forms’ DependencyService with our own Dependecy Injection-mechanism, this article is all about Navigation an...
Recap Let’s just do a small recap what Dependency Injection means. The DI pattern’s main goal is to decouple objects and their dependencies. To separate concerns, we are using this structure nearl...
Updated some code parts that needed to be changed in the ViewModelLocator. Please see also this post for upgrading the project to .netStandard: Xamarin Forms, the MVVMLight Toolkit and I: migrati...
Note: as this is an editorial, this blog post reflects my own experience and thoughts. You will agree with some points, but disagree with others. Feel free to leave a comment to start a discussion ...
[Updated: the first version of this blog post was using a UserControl. Thanks to a discussion on Twitter, I realized that wrapping it into a UserControl is overblown (yes, sometimes I tend to write...
Yesterday in the morning, Alessandro invited me to join a meetup targeting the Hololens. As the Hololens is very rare outside the US, I just needed to join the event. When I arrived, already one o...
Like I already announced in my last blog post about UWP AppServices, I am going to show you how to create a NuGet package for UWP class libraries. I am going to go through the whole process, and pr...
One of the very cool and helpful new features Microsoft added for UWP apps are AppServices. AppServices allow your application to provide functionality to other applications without even being laun...
This is a blog post not only for developers, but also for users (I will try to get not to technical in this post). I managed to buy a Microsoft Band 2 for me here in Europe two weeks ago, and of co...
2015 was once again a year where a lot happened. My year began with the start of a new job – I am now employed as a full time developer at the Swiss Shareholder register ShareCommService AG. The fi...